PTGUI
A clean and widely used GUI for the panotools under Windows. Shareware. (30 days trial, 65 EUR). PTGui has an enormous amount of features which implies a steep learning curve. For some of the features see tutorials section below.
User Comments
I've been using PTGUI for about a year now and I am very happy with it. In combination with Autopano and Enblend it makes for an almost care-free system that allow me to concentrate on the photography rather than on the computing. The user interface is intuitive although I miss the possibility to zoom on a section of the panorama and do micropositioning (keys to move images by one pixel in the four directions, rotate left or right by a degree, "shrink or expand" an image). Maybe a feature for future versions?
Yuval 17:33, 6 Dec 2004 (EST)
Screenshots
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial1.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial2.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial3.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial4.gif
Tutorials
Internal
There is a rating system indicated by 's:
: Basic need (You are interested in panoramic photography and stitching and need to know basics)
: Nice to know (You have basic knowledge and want to learn more)
: Specialised (You want to get the most of your equipement)
- Circular cropping values in PTGui
- Edit zenith and nadir in one go with PTGui
- Extracting and inserting rectilinear Views
- Full 16 bit workflow
- How to stitch flat images
- How to use enblend for patching zenith and nadir images
- Leveling a Finished Panorama
- Perspective correction
- Stitching Nadir Shots
- Unusual remappings
- Using Autopano-SIFT With PTGui
External
- Quick Tour (PTGui site)
- How to straighten a curved horizon (PTGui site)
- Post processing a layered panorama (PTGui site)
- How to use Panorama Tools to produce a printable panorama (John Houghton)
- How to straighten horizons and correct verticals - John Houghton
- Correction of image distortion and perspective using Panorama Tools and PTgui - Philo
- Ultra-High Resolution Digital Mosaics (pdf) - J. Brian Caldwell, Ph.D.
- Stitching Panoramas with PTGUI and Panorama Tools (PTGui 0.15) - Lutz Kretzschmar
- Correcting lens distortion with Straight Line control points and PTGui - Erik Krause
Deutsch:
- Panoramen erstellen mit PanoTools und PTGui - Bernhard Vogl
- Entzerrung und die unverstandene Horizontlinie - Bernhard Vogl
- 360 Grad-Panoramen - Bernhard Vogl
- Verzeichnung und Farbfehler korrigieren mit PanoTools und PTGui - Erik Krause
Français:
- Faire un Panorama avec PTgui - Adrien Bonnat